On Friday, February 8, 2002, at 11:15 AM, quendezus wrote:
> See below a pseudocode of a mechanism to switch between compile time
> and run time serialization. The compile time code is executed if a
> terminal type is given to serialize_object( ). The run time code is
> executed if a base polymorphic type is given (and 'object' points on
> a derived type). Somehow, the user can thus choose the mechanism he
> wants to use through the type of the parameter. Does it correspond to
> your initial idea of "turn that off" ?
>
> Sylvain

Thanks for this nice piece of pseudo-code, which clearly shows
the one design problem in Jens' current persistence library: